Bantam editions. Contains selected annotated bibliography and selections from Shakespeare's sources.
Bookworm Shakespeare. CD-ROM. 1995. Edition with annotations, background and critical information.
Folger Shakespeare. Contains a summary of each scene along with annotations. Selected bibliography.
Moston, Doug. The First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623. NY: Applause, 1995. A facsimile of the first "collected works" of Shakespeare, with the collection supervised after Shakespeare's death by his colleagues John Heminge and Henrie Condell.
Signet Classics. Contains text, essays including sources and theater history. Selected bibliography.
Variorum text. Contains text, sources, notes on critical commentary, notes on editing.
Reference Works
Bergeron, David M. and Geraldo U. deSousa. Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide. 3rd ed., rev. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 1995. Introduction to critical approaches and scholarly resources, with a section on writing and documenting a term paper.
Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography. Rev. ed. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1973. Essays on major critical opinion, play by play.
Blake, Norman. Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983. A general introduction to Elizabethan English, giving possible meanings for problematic constructions.
Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. NY: Laurel, Dell, 1990. Reference book with entries on plays (scene-by-scene summary, commentary, sources and theatrical history), characters, actors, historical people. For the general reader. Selected bibliography.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1957-1975.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare. NY: William Morrow, 1992. Recent, readable biography of Shakespeare and his times.
Modern Language Association annual bibliography. Now searchable on CD-ROM (under electronic collections at workstations in the library).
Papp, Joseph and Elizabeth Kirkland. Shakespeare Alive! NY: Bantam, 1988. A lively introduction to Elizabethan thought, Shakespeare's sources and theatre and stage history of Shakespearean production.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdry. Rev. ed. NY: Dutton, 1955. A glossary of bawdy words and phrases.
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Shakespeare Quarterly. Annual bibliography that is exhaustive on articles, productions, editions, translations of Shakespeare. Annotated entries.
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